1.The railway ministry issued an offi cial circular on Monday, increasing the fares of the non-air-conditioned class in mail and express trains by 1 paisa and all air-conditioned classes by 2 paise per kilometre from July 1

2.Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla is set to interact with school students and scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) from his orbital post on the International Space Station via ham radio Friday evening.

3.The Election Commission officials Monday defended the move to conduct a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, saying many "non-eligible persons " have been able to procure voter cards as the ongoing exercise was not held periodically since 2004.

4.Pakistan and China are working on a proposal to establish a new regional organisation that could potentially replace the now-defunct South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), according to a media report Monday

5.In an audacious attack on a senior government official in the Capital city that raises serious questions on the law and order situation, a group of hooligans allegedly assaulted Odisha Administrative Service (OAS) offi cer and Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Additional Commissioner Ratnakar Sahoo before dragging him from his offi ce Monday.

6.Fifteen people died and 34 persons suffered injuries in the explosion at Sigachi Industries’ pharma plant in Telangana’s Sangareddy district, state Health Minister C Damodar Rajanarasimha said Monday night.

7.The state government will suspend ration cards of nearly 20.58 lakh people for not doing e-KYC verification, Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister Krushna Chandra Patra said here Monday.

8.Expressing concern over the death of three persons and injuries to about 50 people in a stampede during the Rath Yatra in Puri, Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) Monday asked the district administration and the police to take appropriate measures to prevent occurrence of similar incidents in the future.

9.The Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of a complaint alleging the illegal detention of 19 migrant labourers from Malda district, West Bengal, by the Mahanga Police in Cuttack district. The matter was mentioned by complainant Pradipta Nayak, who based his plea on media reports.

10.In a major move towards strengthening agricultural infrastructure and safeguard farmers’ produce, the state government has decided to construct cold storages in every sub-division. This was revealed by Deputy Chief Minister and Minister of Agriculture, Farmers Empowerment and Energy, Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo at a meeting held at Lok Seva Bhavan Monday.

11.Kandhamal district police achieved a signifi cant breakthrough Monday in their anti-Maoist operations as they neutralised two hardcore Maoists in a gunfi ght deep inside a forest under Baliguda police limits.

12.Bhopal’s much-anticipated Aishbagh Railway Overbridge (ROB), intended to ease traffi c congestion after the closure of a key railway crossing, has become the centre of controversy following revelations of a dangerously sharp 90-degree turn in its design.

13.The prime accused in the Kolkata law college gangrape case, Monojit Mishra, is a history-sheeter having a slew of pending cases of sexual harassment and violent crimes registered against him, police said Monday.

14.India's industrial production growth slowed to a nine-month low of 1.2 per cent in May 2025 due to poor performance of manufacturing, mining and power sectors caused by the early onset of Monsoon, according to offi - cial data released Monday.

15. Gross GST collections doubled in five years to reach an all-time high of Rs22.08 lakh crore in the 2024-25 fiscal years, from Rs11.37 lakh crore in FY21, government data showed Monday.